POTTERS COUNCIL CONFERENCE INSPIRED CERAMIC SURFACES

10 Reasons Why You Should Register and Attend Inspired Ceramic Surfaces Conference | Reason #1

by Potters Council on Monday, March 21, 2011 at 11:39am

POTTERS COUNCIL CONFERENCE

INSPIRED CERAMIC SURFACES

May 20-22, 2011

Temple, Texas

Hosted by Cultural Activities Center

This week Potters Council will be featuring the 10 Reasons Why You Should Register and Attend our upcoming conference in Temple, Texas: INSPIRED CERAMIC SURFACES. You will receive two notes each day this week.

Reason #1 | Presenter Jake Allee

New Perspectives on the Potter’s Wheel as a Tool

This demonstration will cover several thrown and altered techniques combined with hand building methods to create composite forms that break from the conventions of a wheel thrown object. Pushing out on the clay, stretching, making marks, sprigging on the surface, and cutting forms apart will all be employed to form pieces that will be assembled into complex vessels. During this demonstration a dialogue will be created with the workshop participants discussing how and why decisions are made in this process.

Jake will also discuss his design approach to solving issues of proportion through the act drawing. Different examples of how drawing can be interpreted and utilized in the thought process as well as the construction of a vessel will be demonstrated. Special consideration will be given to the descriptive explanation of how drawing as well as the analysis architectural form takes on an inspirational role in his creative process.

To Jake it’s very important to capitalize on the plastic nature of clay in such a manner that the viewer is challenged with understanding the technical aspects of how a piece is constructed. This acts as a gateway for intellectual discussion on the formal aspects of composition, the overall aesthetic effect, and most importantly how the act of making is significant to who he is as a person. He can be calculated and very formal as well as spontaneous and very focused on the moment. These aspects of his personality and his love for living life as an adventure are at the core of his desire to continually make ceramic objects. Jake makes pieces that reflect the many elements that come together to make his life in the form of a vessel because of its historical significance to clay as a medium and its relationship to human life.

Additional Information:

Just received Jake's hand-outs for attendees... You're going to LOVE them! 10 pages of information you will be able to use in your studio right away. He put such detail into his hand-out that it makes us all excited to see him present.

To read more about our other exciting presenters: Margaret Bohls, Sumi von Dassow, Claudia Reese, Sharon Smith, and James Watkins go here:http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/inspired-ceramic-surfaces/

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